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About the Organisation:
At the heart of the region, Nelson City Council is a Unitary Authority responsible for providing key infrastructure, community facilities and services, economic development, and a range of regulatory functions including land use and resource management. The Council focuses on delivering a high-quality service to enable a sustainable regional future for its vibrant environment, current, and future communities during a time of significant regional growth. About this function: You will work on a range of planning projects across a very diverse portfolio, and you will be required to demonstrate your depth and breadth of technical skills and practice as this is a fast-paced work environment. We are seeking for a Senior Planner who is dynamic, shows initiative, and will take responsibility for delivering results within a customer-centric environment. Reporting to the Team Leader within the Environmental Planning team but also planning a supporting and mentoring function to the Planning Advisers in the team. Strong technical skills working with the Resource Management Act will be fortified by your capability to deliver high-quality work and decisions through exceptional time management, and advanced expertise and application of the various legislative frameworks, underpinned by your project management skills and capability to present to a wide variety of forums, including engagement and consultation with the community and elected Members. This challenging function will allow you to extend your policy development and resource management skills at a time where changes to legislation and will provide fresh opportunities and greater potential for innovation in planning.
About you: You will bring exceptional interpersonal communication, strong stakeholder engagement, and relationship management skills, with sound judgment and problem-solving abilities. You will possess a tertiary qualification in resource management, planning or policy analysis or similar, and continued professional development such as professional NZPI membership would be advantageous. this function can flex to suit a Professional Planner that is already operating at this level within consultancy or within another NZ Council looking to escape to the regions, or a Senior Manager (looking to return to a hands-on technical function without staff management responsibilities), or for an practiced Planning Adviser (ready to step up to a broader focused function), who possesses the mix of technical, leadership abilities and relationship management essential to succeed in this function.
compensates: In return, Nelson City Council offers an inclusive and supportive working culture, opportunities for flexible work arrangements (work in the house, part-time, flexible hours), comprehensive remunerations package (income, KiwiSaver, relocation assistance, and more), and these functions provide a career establishment or career development step with depth and diversity. Nelson is a thriving city set within a diverse region with amazing weather, and easy access to beautiful natural environment which provides a wonderful backdrop for businesses and communities in which to live, work and play. As this beautiful city and region continue to grow, there is a constant vibe generated by a buoyant economy, exciting future development, a wealth of arts, cultural, sporting and hospitality activities, and the tourism gateway to numerous regional attractions.
Action: To register your interest in this superb opportunity, please submit your details in absolute confidence via our registration process attaching both an up-to-date CV and cover letter (in Word please). Alternatively, for a confidential conversation, you can contact Amanda Scott, Consulting Director at talentnow! on 021784483.
Applications close midnight on 31st October 2021. We cordially invite candidates that havethe significant outlined practice and are eligible to work in New Zealand. Short description.
